Questions in this quiz: Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt

The main belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, Hygiea, the Trojans co-orbital with Jupiter, near-Earth asteroids, and missions like Dawn, OSIRIS-REx, and Hayabusa.

1. Which asteroid was the target of NASA's Dawn mission immediately before it traveled to Ceres? — Options: Vesta, Pallas, Eros, Lutetia
2. The bright spots in Occator Crater, imaged in detail in 2015, are primarily composed of which material? — Options: Sodium carbonate salts, Water ice, Ammonia frost, Elemental sulfur
3. Jupiter's Trojan asteroids cluster at which two gravitationally stable points? — Options: L1 and L2, L2 and L3, L4 and L5, L3 and L5
4. Which of these main-belt asteroids belongs to a fundamentally different spectral class than the other three? — Options: Vesta, Pallas, Hygiea, Interamnia
5. The sample-return mission that delivered material from asteroid 25143 Itokawa to Earth in 2010 was operated by which agency? — Options: NASA, JAXA, ESA, Roscosmos
6. OSIRIS-REx collected its sample from a near-Earth asteroid whose name comes from which mythological tradition? — Options: Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Mesopotamian
7. The Kirkwood gaps observed in the main asteroid belt are caused by orbital resonances with which body? — Options: Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune